Experts tell MPs single household payments make it easier for domestic abusers to seize and regulate family incomeUniversal credit payments should be split between the male and female partner in claimant households to minimise the risk of domestic abusers exerting financial control over their victim, MPs have been told.Experts told the work and pensions select committee that universal credit’s single monthly household payment made it easier for domestic abusers to seize and regulate family income and prevent partners from leaving the home. Continue reading…
Via: Split universal credit payments between partners to curb abuse, ministers urged
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